Monica Lee STEINBERG

Assistant Professor 助理教授
American Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Tel: 3917-4253
Email: mstein@hku.hk
Office: Room 5.11, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

PhD The Graduate Center of The City University of New York

Monica Lee Steinberg teaches classes on modern and contemporary art as it intersects with technology, law, and the market, and student assignments frequently involve the realization of creative projects. Her research considers art, new media, and law of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with a specific focus on fictional attribution, crime, and humor in a global context. Her writing has appeared in journals such as: Source: Notes in the History of Art | Crime, Media Culture | Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art | Grey Room | Art Journal | Art History | American Art | Oxford Art Journal | Archives of American Art Journal. She has also contributed to exhibition catalogues such as: The University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum’s Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest | The Venice Biennale’s Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours | The Imago Mundi Collection’s Azerbaijan: The colors of wind and fire.
 
For a list of publications, digital humanities projects, and other endeavors, see: msteinberg.art

Modern and contemporary art

Art and pseudonymity, art and law, art and new media

Selected Publications

“Aesthetic Incongruity: Art and Humor in Post-Independence Azerbaijan,” in Humor in Global Contemporary Art, ed. Mette Gieskes and Gregory Williams (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024), 295–311.

“Boggs Bills: Contrast Agents in the Art Market and in Law, or How to Make Money as an Artist,” Crime, Media, Culture 20, no. 2 (April 2024): 135–162. Online First: August 2023.

“Extralegal Portraiture: Surveillance, between Privacy and Expression,” Grey Room 87 (Spring 2022): 66–99.

“Coercive Disobedience: Art and Simulated Transgression,” Art Journal 80, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 78–99.

“Financial True Crime: Art, Para-journalism, and Data-Driven Storytelling,” Art History 44, no. 2 (April 2021): 256–284.

“Uncivil Obedience: Lowell Darling Follows the Law,” American Art 34, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 112–135.

“(Im)Personal Matters: Intimate Strangers and Affective Market Economies,” Oxford Art Journal 42, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 45–67.

“Naming: Heteronymy and the Imaginary Artists of George Herms,” American Art 32, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 24–51.

Past Courses

AMER2058 Art and law in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

AMER2064 Art, time, and new media

AMER2065 Radical artistic practice in the shadow of Hollywood

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